Release Round Up - September 26th, 2025
Every Friday there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Whilst we try to cover as much as possible here at The Razor's Edge, it's not always possible to review everything. So each week on a Friday we'll round up some of the best new music available, some we've reviewed, some we haven't, but all worth checking out!
Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!
Here's what we think you should check out today!
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Icelandic retro-fuelled prog rock trio The Vintage Caravan release 'Portals' via Napalm Records.
"full of boundless energy with a tantalising basslines from Alexander Orn Numason."
Read out full review here.
Brummie heavy trio Voidlurker release EP 'Loathe For Life' via APF Records.
"The fours songs carry weight, substance and fortitude and solidifies their position in the upper tiers of British sludge metal bands."
Read our full review here
Emerging from the festering underground of Cleveland, Abraded release 'Ethereal Emanations from Cthonic Caries' Via Redefining Darkness Records.
"a beast that charges right out of the gate"
Read our full review here.
Canadian death metal outfit Last retch unleash 'Abject Cruelty' via Time To Kill Records.
"Abject Cruelty roars, gnashing teeth, and under half an hour too."
Read our full review here.
Brutal death metal/slam crew Peeling Flesh release their new EP, 'PF Radio 2', via Unique Leader Records.
"Huge riffs abound, deep powerful growls and drums wound so tight they sound like they are going to explode!"
Read our full review here.
Crawling from the catacombs of the American extreme metal scene Occulsed release ;'Antegnosis' via Everlasting Spew Records.
"an enjoyable and impactful experience that brings their riffs and hideous soundscape round again."
Read our full review here.
German metal stalwarts Rage extend their extensive career with 'A New World Rising' released via Steamhammer / SPV.
"‘A New World Rising’ is undoubtedly Rage, but not quite as we know it"
Read our full review here.
Beyond Extinction drop their debut full length offering 'Where They Gather'.
"The album oozes quality with every note, with every gut wrenching scream the listener can feel the effort that has gone into crafting it."
Read our full review here.
Revocation creates extreme music for extreme times. They release 'New Gods, New Masters' via Metal Blade this week!
"takes audiences away from rudimentary technical death metal, towards planes where the left-field, avant-garde possibilities are in greater number."
Read our full review here.
Wife & wife Industrial Noise duo Mrs Frighthouse release debut album 'Solitude Over Ctonrol'.
"The vocal, set against a caustic barrage of noise, is spine-chillingly cold but it embodies what the duo are exploring, exceptionally well."
Read our full review here.
The groundbreaking Amorphis release 'Borderland' via Reigning Phoenix Music.
"luscious, cinematic songs which focus on atmosphere alongside hook and melody driven catchy numbers"
Read our full review here.
Black/Death trio Ordeals released Third Rail Prayer!
"There’s something dystopian here, as though the sounds of album reside hidden within a totalitarian forest of concrete, raging out, surrounded by tenement after tenement of dull flatness"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Coach Party - Caramel (Chess Club Records)
Dave Hause - …And The Mermaid (SBÄM Records, Bloody Harmony Records)
Ida Maria - Seven Deadly Sins + 3 (Indie Recordings)
President - King of Terrors [EP]
Robert Kane - Blues Is Blues (Conquest Music)
The Oil Barons - Grandiose (Self-released)
Thunderbird Divine - Live, Loud and Lucky (Self-released)
White Reaper - Obnly Slighty Empty (Blue Grape Music)
Zetra - Zetra: The Floor Eternal (Nuclear Blast)
Heavy Metal
Blizaro - Light and Desolation (Nameless Grave Records)
Curse of Cain - Achtung! (ROAR)
House of Hosts - Reckoning [EP] (Self-released)
Lightchapter - Where All Hope Begins (self-released)
Poptones - Pure (Happy Metal Records)
Risen Atlantis (Feat. Frank Beck) - Power To The Past (Frontiers Music SRL)
War Grave - Free Will (Self-released)
Black Metal
Christ Agony - Anthems (Deformeathing Production)
Frostmoon Eclipse - As Time Retreats (Immortal Frost Productions)
L'Homme Absurde - Flicker In The Rearview (Self-released)
Narrenwind - Gorzkie Plony (Pagan Records)
Nihili Locus - Semper (My Kingdom Music)
Nihili Locus - Nihil Morte Certium [REISSUE] (My Kingdom Music)
Sundrowned - GHiganbana (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Adelon - Resurgence [Instrumental Version] (Self-released)
After Earth - Dark Night of the Soul (Self-released)
Demiurgon - Miasmatic Deathless Chamber (Transcending Obscurity Records)
From The Crypt - Born In The Grave (Raw Skull Recordz)
Omicidio - Premature Exequie (My Kingdom Music)
Sardonic - menschenfeind (Fetzner Death Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Blizaro - Light and Desolation (Nameless Grave Records)
Cosmic Reaper - Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Harvest - For The Souls We Have Lost (Octopus Rising)
Liminal Erosion - In The Time Vulture's Talons (self-released)
Marmalade Knives - Paradigm Lost (Electric Valley Records)
Oscillotron - Sniezna (Self-released)
Stone Machine Electric - Faces (Argonauta Records)
The Answer Lies In The Black Void - Transcendental (Lay Bare Recordings)
The Sorrow Of Being Immaculate - Suicide Forest (Drone Alone)
Warcoe - Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple Music)
Ysigim - Ain Soph Or [REISSUE] (Dying Sun Records)
Zombie Eater - Faces (Argonauta Records)
Metalcore
Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together (Sharptone Rcords)
From Fall To Spring - Entry Wounds (Arising Empire)
Refiner - Refiner (Rottweiler Records)
Noise Rock
Irk - The Seeing House (Nefarious Industries)
Last Hyena - Suspect Your Elders [EP] (Self-released)
Post-Metal
Abraham - idsungwüssä (Pelagic Records)
Elbe - Peculiar (Octopus Rising)
Power Metal
Tales of Destiny - Ashes of Destiny (Self-released)
Terra Atlantica - Oceans (Scarlet Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Bakelit - No Fear of Drowning (Self-released)
DarWin - Distorted Mirror (OoS/Phantom Recordings)
Korypheus - Gilgamesh (M-Theory Audio)
Little King - Lente Viviente (self-released)
Uragh - Stalemate [EP] (Self-released)
Punk
Hunny - Spirit! (Epitaph)
Indecent Behavior - Sick (Long Branch Records)
Left Hand Black - Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart (The Circle Music)
Thrash Metal
Degrave - Metalithic (ShredHead Records)
Feral State - II (Road to Masochist)
Overt Enemy - Insurrection (Self-released)
Paradox - Mysterium (High Roller Records)
... and the rest!
Branderstadt - red (Archivist Records) [Folk Metal]
Delilah Bon - Princeless Princess [EP] (Independent) [NuMetal]
Esses - Pain at the Altar of Jest (Seeing Red Records) [Post-Goth]
Face Yourself - Fury (Sumerian Records) [Deathcore]
Nero Kane - For the Love, the Death and the Poetry (Subsound Records) [Dark Folk]
